Open a terminal window.
# 4

Type “fdisk -l” (without the quotation marks) to see the hard drive and partition device names. This displays the hard drives and partitions on your system. Make a note of the hard drive or partition you want to scan for the “e2fsck” command. Please note the parameter after the command is a lower-case “L.”
# 5

Type the following command: sudo e2fsck -cfpv /dev/sdb2. Replace “sdb2” with your actual device name, this can be an entire drive, such as “sda” or a partition, such as “sda1.”

The parameters have the following meanings: “c” searches for bad blocks and adds them to the list, “f” forces a check on the file system, “p” repairs anything that can be safely repaired and “v” is verbose mode so you can see the command progress.

The “e2fsck” command can take a long time to run, even several hours on a particularly large drive.
# 6

Exit the terminal after the “e2fsck” command is finished.
# 7

Remove the DVD/CD if any and reboot the system. Your file system is up to date with any bad sectors and will avoid them; any repairable issues have been fixed.

Read more: How to Fix Bad Sectors in Linux | eHow.com http://www.ehow.com/how_7226154_fix-bad-sectors-linux.html#ixzz2LzjFwLA5
I don’t know what x window’s is? I’m on linux.

I enabled many effects in compiz-config, changed my start button from the generic linux mint 10 default to ‘Gnomenu’, changed from the old window switcher to ‘DockbarX’. and installed a program called emerald Theme manager, (however, i cant figure out what it does or how to use it and change the theme of my desktop?). I continued with tweaking gnome 2.x, and followed instructions (http://www.webupd8.org/2010/05/enable-rgba-transparency-in-ubuntu-910.html) on how to enable RGBA module needed for some certain themes. after i installed ‘GNOME color-chooser’ and went to the last tab where i changed a the first ‘engine’ and enabled RGBA support. nothing happened or changed, I was disappointed, i then restarted the computer, this is where things all went wrong!

the compiz effects work, open windows have a theme and are translucent, however, the desktop just has a plane grey (or gray, both spellings are correct) background. and whenever i open ‘Appearance’, and try to change the background, the entire GUI freezes, all except for the mouse pointer, i can move it around, but i cant click on anything, the keyboard does nothing, i have to force-restart to get it working again. the same thing happens when i try to change the setting in ‘Gnome color-chooser’

I believe the problem is that ‘Appearance’ and ‘Gnome color chooser’ are conflicting programs and don’t work well with each other. i don’t think it has to do with my GB of DDR2 RAM, or anything, otherwise the entire system wound freeze, right? so, how do i fix it? i want to have a windows 7 theme with my top bar transparent

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I like Linux, and i am not paying for a software, let alone an entire OS. i just want a different theme is all,

my the areo theme i mean the transparent titlebar.
i meant: by the areo theme where i mention that above, i mainly want the transparent titlebar.

I’ve mercury motherboard 915 motherboard, intel 2.4Ghz p4 processor. I’m unable to install linux in my system. Though ubuntu 7.04 is being installed i’m getting only 600 by 480 resolution.

Please give me a solution to my problem.

Thanx in advance!

Windows sucks and I never have this problem on linux, Would be using Linux right now but Online Studies Require Windows Os and Windows only programs.

Any suggestions on how to locate and destroy this virus?